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Volume 96, Issue 114
Tuesday, February 7, 1989
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By JENNY CLONINGER
Assistant University Editor
The 350 North Campus student
parking spaces that the chancellor's
ad hoc parking committee proposed
to eliminate last week do not exist,
according to student goverment
research.
Several points in the committee's
proposal are not feasible and treat
students unfairly, student govern
ment officials said Monday.
Student Body President Kevin
Martin, Student Congress Speaker
Neil Riemann and presidential aide
Joe Andronaco presented a counter
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By JESSICA LANNING
Staff Writer
Although a full-scale immuniza
tion program is in effect at UNC,
other Orange County residents have
not been required to take similar
precautions against the measles.
"It would take several outbreaks
in the community, a lot more than
one case, to warrant mass community
immunization," said Kathy Glassock,
Orange County Health Department
nursing supervisor.
But Glassock said she feels the
community is well aware of the
problem.
"We (the health department) are
Area bDood sypply.at crSticall low
By AMY WAJDA
Staff Writer
The Alpha Phi Omega (APO)
blood drive desperately needs blood
donations from UNC community
members who do not need to be
vaccinated for the measles, APO
Bloodmobile Co-coordinator Casey
Copp said Monday.
The blood drive will be held today
and tomorrow in the Great Hall of
the Frank Porter Graham Student
Union from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Recent measles vaccinations led to
a 25 percent drop in donations at
Duke University and a 50 percent
drop in donations at N.C. State
Policy to
By NANCY WYKLE
.Staff Writer
Changes in the process for filling
student positions on chancellor's
committees will result in better access
and representation for students,
Student Body President Kevin Mar
tin said.
The appointment process will also
be more efficient for Student Govern
ment, he said. "But more importantly,
it will give students a direct voice."
The change in the process resulted
ead e r
proposal to Chancellor Hardin
Monday.
The students are concerned chiefly
with recommendations to eliminate
350 student spaces on North Campus
and charge students a $2 fee to park
in North Campus lots at night.
One of the committee's proposals
recommends transferring 350 resident
student parking spaces on North
Campus to faculty and staff to
accommodate losses caused by con
struction. Students don't occupy 350
spaces on North and Mid Campus
combined, the student government
proposal said.
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receiving calls from students, faculty,
parents and adults concerned about
their own health," Glassock said.
People who come to the health
department are immunized free of
charge but must meet certain guide
lines, she said.
Anyone 15 months or older who
was born since Jan. 1, 1957, may be
vaccinated against the disease at the
health department. People born
before 1957 are considered immune.
Those vaccinated before 1968
should be reimmunized since the
vaccine used before that year was an
inactive virus instead of the live strain
used today. Persons who received the
University, said Beverly Thompson,
communications director for the
Durham chapter of the Red Cross.
"The vaccinations have really
affected our whole donor base on
college campuses," Thompson said.
"It could be a very serious problem
for us unless people (at UNC) who
don't need the shot do come in and
give."
Students who have been inoculated
by Student Health Services with the
measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)
vaccine should not give blood for four
weeks, said Dr. Paul Jenner, medical
director for the Carolinas Region of
the American Red Cross.
speed! committee
from a proposal by Martin that was
approved by Chancellor Paul Hardin
last week.
Previously, the student body pres
ident recommended two people for
every open position on the commit
tees. Now, the president can submit
one name for each committee and
four alternates who could serve on
any committee.
About 60 students are appointed
to different committees, Martin said.
The chancellor's committees are a
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Eliminating all student parking on
North Campus alone, including
hardship and handicap spaces, would
only open 314 spaces. Removing all
resident spaces on both North and
Mid Campus still yields only 337
spaces, the counterproposal said.
"This indicates not only a thorough
lack of research on the part of the
ad hoc committee, but also a tho
rough lack of understanding of
student needs," the counterproposal
said. "We feel students are bearing
a disproportionate amount of the
loss."
The Department of Transportation
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Woollen Gym Monday afternoon
meaisles acttooini
older kind of inoculation may also
be vaccinated at the health
department.
Arrangements to reimmunize peo
ple who received the vaccination
when they were between the ages of
12 and 15 months have been made
only because a measles case has been
reported at UNC, Glassock said.
"This is not a normal situation."
Also, this reimmunization plan
affects only the students, faculty and
staff of UNC not people living in
the surrounding area.
Students who come to the health
department and meet criteria for
immunization by the University are
The live virus used to immunize
students could potentially be passed
through the donated blood to the
recipient, Jenner said.
Students who need to be vacci
nated but have not yet received the
shot also should not give blood,
Thompson said. "If a person has been
exposed to measles or has been told
they need to get the vaccination, they
should not give blood."
Only people who were properly
vaccinated as a child or who know
they have not been exposed to
measles should give blood, she said.
Students who have been vaccinated
must wait four weeks and one day
mixture of students, faculty members
and administrators who advise Uni
versity officials on issues such as
parking, food service and housing.
The old policy was cumbersome
and time-consuming, Martin said.
Students often had to wait until mid
summer or later before they knew
whether they would be able to serve
on a committee, he said.
The chancellor will in effect be
accepting the student body presi
tree
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and Parking Services said no more
than 200 student spaces could feasibly
be eliminated from North Campus,
according to the counterproposal.
But the student leaders are opposed
to the removal of any student spaces,
Riemann said.
No other changes should be made
in the number of student, faculty and
staff spaces near central campus, the
counterproposal said.
It recommends dividing the 500
additional spaces created at the new
P3 lot at Horace Williams Airport
among -students, faculty and staff
H comittDiniyes to
maBidatoiry vaccimiaf dodds
By RHETA LOGAN
Staff Writer
Area nurses administered doses of
red measles vaccine to about 3,000
people during the first day of man
datory vaccinations for students,
faculty and staff Monday at Woollen
Gym.
State and county health depart
ment officials ordered the large-scale
vaccination of UNC students, faculty
and staff when officials confirmed a
case of measles at UNC Friday
morning.
A three-week review of student
records by Student Health Service
(SHS) revealed that between 10,000
and 12,000 students needed the
vaccination. Between 2,000 and 3,000
: faculty members .need re-vaccination,
said Daniel Reimer, health director
of the Orange County Health Depart
ment. People vaccinated before 1968 of
before the age of 15 months need to
be re-vaccinated, said Dr. Judith
Cowan, director of SHS. Those who
referred to Woollen Gym, she said.
The health department implemented
the program at UNC and is working
closely with the University.
The immunizations are a highly
preventive measure to make students
more immune, even though the
student body is no more likely to
contract the disease than any other
population, she said.
The health department is taking
another preventive measure by com
piling lists of students in both Orange
County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro
school systems who might need to be
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to donate blood, Thompson said. For
example, a student vaccinated today
must wait until Wed., March 8 to give
blood.
Copp said volunteers would check
donors' measles status while register
ing them.
Copp said the drive's goal of 150
donors each day had been lowered
to 125 each day because of the
vaccinations.
A 6-foot submarine sandwich
donated by the Eastgate Subway will
be available for donors today and
tomorrow around lunchtime, Copp
said. Donors will also be able to get
cups of TCBY frozen yogurt.
appointments for
dent's recommendations routinely,
Hardin said. "It suggests a level of
trust between the chancellor and
student government that's very pos
itive," he said.
The policy change shows the
administration appreciates student
input, he said. Student government
is most qualified to decide who would
best represent the student interests,
not the administration, he said.
The policy was changed because of
Martin's recommendation, Hardin
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proportionate to how many spaces
the groups will lose. About 800 spaces
will be lost to construction. Of those,
students will lose about 500, and
faculty and staff about 300, Martin
said.
A fringe lot, like P3 may be
undesirable to faculty and staff
members, but a frequent shuttle
service and adequate lighting and
security should make the location less
inconvenient, the counterproposal
said.
"Faculty and staff should be as
willing as students are supposed to
be to bear the responsibility of the
were not notified by SHS can assume
they do not need the shot, she said.
AH students needing immunization
should have received notification
through the mail by today, Cowan
said. Students who came to the gym
Monday without a notice or " who
were not on SHS's list of those
needing the shot were not adminis
tered the vaccine, she said.
Only those students who could
prove that they need the shot by
submitting a doctor's note, for
example were allowed to be
vaccinated, she said. "It's important
to conserve the vaccine," she said.
Students who have been notified
by SHS who do not report to the
gym to be immunized by Wednesday
, night, will not be allowed to attend
class Thursday morning, Cowan said.
If students who need the shot do not
comply by Friday, the Orange
County Public Health Department
will seek to exclude those students
from the UNC campus, she said.
"This process is mandated by
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said. "I saw no reason not to change
the policy," he said. "I have a great
deal of confidence in student
government."
Prior to the policy change, it has
sometimes been difficult for the
student body president to get
appointments approved. .
In 1986, Student Body President
Bryan Hassel nominated a student to
the Food Services Advisory Commit
tee who was rejected by then
Chancellor Christopher Fordham
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parking crunch," the counterproposal
read.
Another objection student govern
ment has to the committee's proposal
is its recommendation that students
pay $2 to park in the gated Carroll
Hall, Hill Hall and Bynum Caldwell
Hall lots at night. Faculty and staff
members would park free.
"We deny that faculty and staff use
of the facilities near these lots in the
evening hours warrants gating all
three," the counterproposal said.
"Evening hours are prime working
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North Carolina law," she said. "We :
want the students to take the immun
izations seriously."
The vaccine is provided by the
state, but the University and SHS
covered costs of the inoculation
process, including nurses's salaries
and vaccination supplies, Cowan
said.
The vaccination process should
prevent the disease from spreading
any further, Reimer said, but success
will depend on the turnout of students
who need the shot.
Students may experience slight side
effects from the shot, Cowan said,
including a mild fever. Students
should treat it like a common cold,
she said.
; No .other measles cases, have been
reported in Orange Ciounty since the
discovery of the UNC case, although
one case was reported at N.C. State
University and two more were dis
covered at Duke University over the
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because the nominee had been active
in trying to change the food service
on campus. Fordham said the nomi
nee was rejected because he would
not be a constructive member of the
committee.
Fordham told the student body
president he had to submit nomina
tions for one and one-half times the
number of open spaces on the com
mittees, Martin said. "It undermined
the idea of fair student representa
tion," he said.
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